Improvement in combined glove-stretcher and hand-measure



M. GREENSFELDER. COMBINED GLOVE-STRETCHER AND HAND-MEASURE.

Patented Aug. 29, 1876.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MOSES GREEN SFELDER, OF HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED GLOVE-STRETCHER AND HAND-MEASURE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1 81,671, dated August29, 1876; application filed June 12, 187 6.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Mosns GREENSFELDER, of Harrisburg, Dauphin county,Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Combined Glove-Stretcherand Hand Measure, of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention consists in the combination of a hand-measure with aglove-stretcher, the measure being so arranged within the handle of thestretcher as to be capable of being drawn out for use, and is caused toregain its position in the handle by means of a suitable spring. A isthe jaw of an ordinary glove-stretcher, which is chambered out toreceive the measure B and spring a. G is a guide, which is attached tothe free end of the spring a, and also to the inner end of the measureB.

An index, b, is attached to the guide 0, and slides in a slot, 0, in thehandle of the stretcher. Ascale, d, representing the different sizes ofgloves, is laid off on each side of the slot 0.

be placed on the loop or measure instead of on the handle, as described.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patentl. The combination of a glove-stretcher andhand-measurin g device, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination of the jaw A, loop or measure B, spring a, index b,and scale d, substantially as shown and described.

MOSES GREENSFELDER.

Witnesses:

DANL. MCGARROLL, WM. FISHINGER.

